PedalPGH bike festival is celebrating 25 years. What was biking like in Pittsburgh before it started?

“When I first moved here, and rode my bike downtown, people were aghast” Today’s Pittsburgh is pretty good for cyclists.…

Today’s Pittsburgh is pretty good for cyclists. There are trails, protected bikes lanes, streets with traffic-calming designs that make it easier to share the roads with cars. Between 2010 and 2016, Pittsburgh nearly doubled the number of its bike commuters, adding 1,260 cyclists.

It’s not perfect (no city is), but it’s miles better than it was 25 years ago.